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What can we learn from watching the Crystal Ball?

Job Advice Blog

Companies are hedging their bets by hiring temps instead a steady workforce. The long term prediction is that a decade from now the retirement of the baby boomers could cause labor shortages which again lead to opportunities. Most of them are expressing the negativity that currently exists in the labor market.

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Outsourcing Options For Small Business | THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG

The Small Business Blog

Virtual workers can be from a “Temp-Agency&# or a from contracting firms. Both of these relationships are good for your cost-planning because they are not fixed, permanent costs, they are variable cost, meaning, when the project is finished the contract for your temp-workers, contractors finishes too. SME should.

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Which Person Would You Talk To?

Men With Pens

Here’s your retirement cheque, go build your house, put in a pool, and stay with your girlfriend for the rest of your life,&# then I would probably kill myself. Justin King December 2, 2009 at 2:29 am “Kevin Parent: I embrace the business side. It’s been a pleasure working with you, but we no longer need you.

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